Marriage, separation, and divorce in England, 1500-1700 /
Why did England alone of all Protestant jurisdictions not allow divorce with remarriage in the era of the Reformation? Kesselring and Stretton argue that the answer lies in a distinctive aspect of English law - its common-law formulation of coverture, the umbrella term for married women's legal...
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Online Access: | Electronic book from Oxford Scholarship Online |
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Published: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2022. |
Edition: | First edition. |
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